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Ainsworth

REAL TIME LOCATION SYSTEMS (RTLS)
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About Ainsworth

Your trusted partner.

Ainsworth, founded in Toronto, Ontario in 1933, is a provider of high-quality technical trades services for institutional, commercial, residential, healthcare, and industrial clients across North America. Ainsworth is proud to offer the Canadian public sector a competitively solicited and awarded contract for Real Time Location Systems (RTLS), made available through Kinetic GPO.
 
Ainsworth maintains a strong national presence with offices strategically located across Canada, enabling them to provide timely and efficient service to Kinetic GPO members in most major cities. 

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About Ainsworth

Realtime Locating Services (RTLS)

Safety for Visitors, Patients, and Staff
Knowing where occupants are at all times in controlled facilities like hospitals, long term care, and institutional buildings with restricted access is an important part of protecting your building and those who live and work there.

This commitment is backed by Ainsworth's National Operations and Support Centre (NOSC), providing immediate support by phone, and their ability to dispatch a technician on-site within 4 hours in most major cities. Ainsworth's commitment to nationwide service coverage, combined with their local expertise, reinforces Ainsworth's position as a reliable partner for Kinetic GPO members across Canada.

Ainsworth provides advanced location and contact tracing with geo-fencing and zone-based business rules applied.

Contract Scope

What This Contract Offers

Ainsworth offers a comprehensive suite of healthcare technology solutions, including:

  • Real Time Location Systems (RTLS)

    These systems are used for a variety of safety and efficiency applications such as staff duress, patient wandering, infant protection, and asset management.

  • Nurse Call Systems

    Ainsworth provides UL-listed nurse call systems with features like wireless emergency calls, wander management, and fall detection. These systems are designed with open integrations and have no ongoing licensing fees.

  • Electronic Security

    This includes video management systems, access control, intrusion detection, and duress alarms to ensure the safety and security of patients, staff, and visitors.

  • Clinical Communications

    Ainsworth offers solutions for telephony, intercoms, paging, messaging, and clinical interfaces to facilitate efficient communication within healthcare facilities.

  • Active Response Training

    Delivered by our ProActive Response Group — from active shooter drills to emergency medical preparedness.

  • Hardware & Software

    Monitor, inspect, document, and report incidents while notifying clients and emergency personnel in real time.
FAQs

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Common questions about this contract and how to put it to work for your organisation.

Members gain access to a comprehensive range of products and services at competitive pricing, all available without running a separate solicitation.

Ainsworth offers a comprehensive suite of healthcare technology solutions, including:
Real-Time Location Systems (RTLS): These systems are used for a variety of safety and efficiency applications such as staff duress, patient wandering, infant protection, and asset management.
Nurse Call Systems: Ainsworth provides UL-listed nurse call systems with features like wireless emergency calls, wander management, and fall detection. These systems are designed with open integrations and have no ongoing licensing fees.
Electronic Security: This includes video management systems, access control, intrusion detection, and duress alarms to ensure the safety and security of patients, staff, and visitors.
Clinical Communications: Ainsworth offers solutions for telephony, intercoms, paging, messaging, and clinical interfaces to facilitate efficient communication within healthcare facilities.
In addition to these core offerings, Ainsworth also provides integration services, intelligent building management platforms, and other technologies that can be applied to optimize healthcare environments.

Yes. This RFSO was competitively awarded in full compliance with the Canadian Free Trade Agreement (CFTA), CETA, the Atlantic Trade and Procurement Partnership (ATPP), the Ontario Broader Public Sector (BPS) Procurement Directive, the Ontario-Quebec Trade and Cooperation Agreement (OQTCA), and the New West Partnership Trade Agreement (NWPTA), and all applicable public-sector procurement requirements.

Post a public notice, contact your Kinetic GPO representative to confirm your entity is registered, then reference the RFSO number on your purchase order, and you are ready to order.

Eligible organisations include Canadian municipalities, K-12 and higher education institutions, healthcare facilities, non-profits, Indigenous communities, and all MASH sector entities.

No. There are no volume commitments or minimum purchase requirements. Order what your entity needs, when you need it, at the contracted rates.

Public Record

Contract Documents

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RFSO Documents

The original Request For Standing Offer documents as issued — solicitation, terms, scope, and awarded pricing schedule.

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Notice of Award

Official Notice of Award for this RFSO, posted to fulfill public procurement transparency and trade-agreement compliance.

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Ainsworth Case Studies

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Free Membership

Membership is free for eligible public sector and MASH entities across Canada.

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